SUMMARY

• Over all 8 years of experience in Information Technology with expertise in SAP R/3 as a PM Functional Consultant with two end to end implementations.
• Project Implementation skills include Requirements Gathering, As - Is and To-Be documentation, functional and technical specifications, data migration, customization, configuration, testing, issue handling, performing cutover activities and SAP best practice methodologies across diverse manufacturing industries.
• Clear understanding of ASAP methodology all the way from Business blueprint to Implementation and Go-live support.
• Strong experience in project pre-implementation, post-implementation, conversions and follow-up.
• Extensive experience in Verification and Validation in SAP systems (Master and Transactional data). Experience in Integration, Regression, Interface, Performance, Volume and UAT testing.
• Experienced in release and deployment management, preparing and documenting the User Acceptance Test (UAT) plans and obtaining the necessary signoffs using Quality Assurance
• Post-implementation activities include training, support and reporting.
• Worked on various RICEF objects including design and development of various complex interfaces and conversion objects.
• Plant Maintenance Configuration- Functional Location, Equipments, Serial numbers, Notification and Maintenance Orders.
• Good knowledge on PM Technical Objects like Structuring & Managing Technical objects: Functional Locations, Equipment Serial numbers, Measuring points and Counters.
• Expert in designing Functional Specifications by collecting requirements from the Business Users and handling them to the Technical team.
• SAP Plant Maintenance Process Management: Breakdown, Preventive, Corrective, Inspection, Calibration of test equipment, Refurbishment and Shutdown Maintenance etc.
• Integration knowledge of PM with Material Management (MM), Controlling (CO), Project Systems (PS), Sales and Distribution (SD), Production Planning (PP), & Quality Management (QM) modules
• Expert in designing Functional Specifications by collecting requirements from the Business Users and handling them to the Technical team. Extensive knowledge of designing screens (Prototyping) for FIORI applications.
• Good knowledge in ABAP debugging techniques and work with User-Exits/BADI’s and Cross Applications. Special emphasis on Data Migration specifications with BDC, LSMW for data uploads on various projects.
• Knowledge on ABAP,IDOCS, BAPI & BADI’s
• Provided estimates for new developments and Enhancements
• Experience in SQL Query, EDI(Outbound, Inbound), ALE Configuration(RFC’s, Partner Profile, Ports, Distribution Model)
• Excellent communication, leadership and inter personnel skills. Proven ability to work independently and team environments.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Interface Tools: ALE, EDI, IDOC, RFC and BAPI

User Enhancements: Function Module Exit, Screen Exit, Menu Exit, Field Exit, Dialog Pool Programming, Screen Painter, Menu Painter, BADI

Data Communications: Batch Input, Call Transaction, LSMW, BAPI

Analysis Tools: ABAP debugger, SQL Trace

Languages: ABAP/4, SQL, PL-SQL, VB-Script

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

SAP Plant Maintenance Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Full life cycle implementation of SAP Plant Maintenance module using ASAP methodology - project preparation, business blueprint, realization, final preparation, go live and post implementation support.
• Created hierarchy levels using Structure Indicator for Functional Locations to represent operational structures according to company’s functionality and created different views for it using alternative labeling system.
• Maintenance Processing: Control Function: Cost flow in Maintenance Process, Settlement Orders, budgeting & Cost planning.
• Evaluated the existing maintenance processes and scenarios in existing Legacy Systems and adapted them to SAP.
• Liaise with the development and business teams to discuss, design and configure robust/efficient solutions
• Integration of Plant Maintenance Module with Funds Management.
• Configured DMS with object links to create attachments for Notifications, work orders and Equipments.
• Created User Status for Work orders to provide restrictions of transactions based on status to reduce user error.
• Created Functional Specification documents to meet business requirements.
• Testing of developed objects in development and quality environments.
• Configured and created PM Master Data - Functional Locations, Equipment’s, Work Centers and maintained authorization for those elements.
• Configured damage codes, cause codes and activity codes and assigned the codes groups to catalog profiles for use in notifications.
• Preventive maintenance: Created Single cycle maintenance plans, Maintenance Items, Scheduling.
• Analyze the business scenarios & develop prototypes to support the process designs. Integration of Fiori Apps with GIS and Esri. Mapping all technical objects on GIS Explorer.
• Designing prototype screens and tiles for Fiori applications (work orders, work order list. notifications, notification list, timesheets).
• Created uPerform recording documents for training.
• Created LSMW Program to upload Work Centers, Maintenance Items.
• Coordinating directly with SAP for all the OSS messages raised by team
• Preparation and delivery of SAP training courses covering basic navigation, Notifications, Confirmations, PM Orders, and Reporting to end users.
• End user training and post go-live support.

Environment: ECC 6.0, uPerform, FIORI, HP ALM.

Confidential, Houston, TX

SAP EAM Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Lead Data Management team in Plant Maintenance Area.
• Configuring SAP PM Settings as per requirements of the processes. Areas covered include Maintenance Orders Processing, Notifications, Refurbishment Order, Time based and Performance based Maintenance Plans, Break-down Analysis, Costing of Maintenance Jobs, Configuration of Equipment, Functional Location and Task List Master.
• Was involved in the implementation of Mobile Work order management. Involved in the field mapping an Integration testing with other modules.
• Changes to configuration setting as required by the client.
• Creating Preventive Maintenance Plan, Task List schedule them as per requirement.
• Configuration of calibration process in SAP and mapping entire test equipment’s under calibration.
• Implemented various maintenance processes: Corrective, Breakdown, Preventive, Shutdown and Calibration.
• Preventive maintenance: Single cycle maintenance/ Strategy plan/ Cycle sets. Configured valuation types and assigned them to valuation categories.
• Master data maintenance - Equipment Master, Functional Locations, Work Centers & Task list. Preparing Time based and Performance based Maintenance Plans.
• Permits implemented as per Requirement.
• Integration with Inventory, Purchasing, CO & PS.
• Integration with other modules such as MM, FICO, QM.
• Creating Material Master and assigning serial number profile and valuation categories to it.
• Looking after the enhancements to meet reporting requirements and providing support to end-users.
• Implemented User-Exits in Standard Process as per the User Requirement in Business Process.
• Worked on User Exit (Maintenance Order: Customer check for order completion) and implemented logic to make Damage and Cause code mandatory in Notification while doing TECO in Maintenance Order for Breakdown Notifications.
• Worked on User Exit (Maintenance order: Customer check for order completion) - to make work confirmation mandatory before technical completion (TECO) of order.
• Improved PM Schedule Compliance (KPI) from 25 % to 95%. Improved Labor Utilization (KPI) from 37% to 99%. Accountable for driving maintenance performance and implementing maintenance planning process improvements.
• Configure the system according to the client requirement in the Development server. Preparing End User manual and MIS Reporting.
• Coordination with other Module Team & development team.
• Maintaining of Maintenance Business Process, supervision, team leading, training and skills transfer.
• Proper documentation of the resolved issues and updating the Problem request Database as detailed with analysis of the issue.

Environment: ECC 6.0, HP ALM, uPerform.

Confidential

Simulation Analyst - Nursing Dept

Responsibilities:

• In charge of design, implementation and evaluation for the nursing simulation program for website development.
• Operate nursing specific computer mediated learning systems and maintain the wireless mannequins.
• Serve as an administrator for the variety of simulators used by the college. Assist students in lab during simulations.
• Provide technical support in human patient simulation to the faculty in health programs.
• Trouble shooting network issues.

Confidential

SAP PM Consultant

Environment: ECC 6.0.

Responsibilities:

• Carried our prototype workshops with key users and maintenance managers.
• Configured Completion Confirmation of Maintenance and Service Order processing - defined control parameters set up screen templates and field selection.
• Configuration of planning data used in Maintenance Strategies, packages, Cycle-sets, Maintenance items, Plans and Scheduling.
• Responsible for creating Roles and Authorization for PM User.
• Determined necessity of additional reports, wrote functional specifications for developers for enhancements using user exits, and modified work order printouts.
• Drafted functional specifications and detailed design for reports and various and interfaces and coordinated with the development team.
• Preventive maintenance for Fleet Vehicles: Single cycle maintenance/ Strategy plan/ Multiple Counter plan. Created Master Inspection Characteristics, Equipment task list, maintenance plans and scheduling calibration orders.
• Worked on inspection plans for test equipment in PM and test generation of calibration orders with inspection lots, results recording of inspection characteristics and usage decisions. Configured business requirements as per SAP Best Practice in DEV client. Wrote Business Process Procedures for the To-Be SAP processes.
• Led the Core user team in making sure all the test cases identified for the Unit Test cycle and Integration Cycles were properly documented.
• Hyper care support on SAP PM/MM module for 5 weeks, worked with end users, Supervisors, Plant Managers to make comfortable on SAP process.
• Defined and implemented an Inventory management system including batch management functions.
• Resolving the Solution Manager Tickets on priority basis.
• Worked on User Exit (Maintenance order: Customer check for ‘SAVE’ Event), in order not to make any Changes in components and operations of shutdown orders once the order has been approved by higher management.
• Organized meetings with business users to understand the requirements for enhancements. Discussed with other team on integration points and issues between PM with MM, CO & PP modules.
• Prepared Functional Specifications for enhancements, reports and conversion programs.
• Worked on the User Exit to make breakdown indicator mandatory before saving the breakdown maintenance order.
• Worked on EDI: Created IDoc setting the outbound parameters for the Purchase Order.
• Developed BDC program for Transaction FK01 to transfer vendor address in to SAP.
• Involved in integration, regression, data, interface testing, performance volume and UAT.
• Preparation and delivery of SAP training courses covering basic navigation, Notifications, Confirmations, PM Orders, and Reporting to end users.
• End user training and post go-live support.

Confidential

SAP PM Consultant

Environment: ECC 6.0.

Responsibilities:

• Customization for Implementation of Maintenance Scenario - Preventive, Breakdown, Refurbishment, Calibration, Workshop Order, External procurement of service through maintenance order and all other aspects associated with PM.
• Configured order types for the notification type, status profile for the notification type, single cycle maintenance plans, order types fully for notification type, Set up maintenance plan, Set up maintenance strategy.
• Mater Data upload - Equipment’s, Functional locations, Work center, Maintenance Plans, Task Lists, and Catalogs.
• Integration with Other Modules.
• Created reports using SAP Query tool.
• Master data upload and testing all the scenarios in Development and testing servers. Preparing functional specification for various PM developments.
• New Development and changes as and when required by the customer.
• Resolving issues in plant maintenance in the areas of work orders, notifications and maintenance plans. Resolving issues in process orders.
• Setting up and maintaining regular and preventative maintenance strategies referring to task lists created, creating relationships and doing cost analysis.
• Working closely in the areas of break fixes, maintenance support, process improvements / enhancements and new process.
• Supporting in handling PM Module in the areas of Work Order Settlement, Maintenance Plans, MTTR, MTBF Reports, Maintenance Costs and Batch Jobs.
• Configure and automate template-based work orders and tailored workflows. Assign work resources and create project teams with planners and members. Track time, materials and work progress.
• Configured QM module for equipment calibration orders that were linked to inspection lot generation, results recording and usage decisions with automatic update of equipment status and measuring documents.
• Resolving Inventory management related issues, which generate during the different kind of material movement activities. I.e. wrong inventory valuation, Account determination errors, improper master data maintenance etc.
• Reporting any functional gaps in existing applications and suggest business process improvements.
• Created the ALE Model and created the Partner profiles for all the inbound and outbound message types.
• Post Go-Live support for inventory transactions coming from legacy system through IDocs for
• Purchase Order, creating Inbound/Outbound delivery, shipments, trouble shoot and fixed failed IDocs.
• Core Team & End User Training.